Responding to the Instagram scandal on Howard Stern's satellite radio show on Wednesday, he said, "Here's the thing ... the way that the news wants to do it, because the way flashy headlines [are] ... they make it like, I'm perusing young woman. I'm not going to high schools looking for dates. ...I'm seeing attractive women. And look, my fan base is like, you know, 17-year-old to 30-year old women -- that's my biggest fan base."

He added of the incident, "I was a gentleman, I said, 'Do you have a boyfriend?,' and her response was, 'Not when you're around.' So that to me sounds like, OK, she's interested."